Rubber garment



y 16, 1939- A. N. SPANEL 2,158,207

RUBBER GARMENT Filed July 7, 1937 INV NTOR. Abraham/V a/;g/.

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' Patented May 16, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Claims.

This invention relates to latex garments such as latex pants or latex bathing trunks. This 'application is a division of applicant's copending application, Serial No. 63,548, filed February 12,

5 1936, and a continuation in part of applicant's copending application Serial No. 738,669, filed August 6, 1934 now Patent No. 2,086,481 granted July 6, 1937.

When rubber garments such as pants or bathing trunks are made of relatively thin material it is diflicult to conceal the contour of different portions of the body covered thereby. This difficulty accounts for the fact that up to'now no one has commercialized men's swim trunks, for example, made of latex. For this reason prior rubber trunks were made of rather thick rubber, with cemented seams in their construction, so that the garment was necessarily bulky and relatively crude looking. In diving, the seams often gave. way, denuding the swimmer.

In accordance with a main feature of the present invention, there is provided a novel type of garment made from liquid latex having on a portion of one of its surfaces a raised pattern which conceals the contour of certain portions of the wearer's body covered thereby.

'Various other features and advantages of the invention will appear from the detailed description and claims when taken with the drawing in such as a pair of trunks made in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is a. side elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2 looking in the direction of the arrows, and illustrating how the inner surface of the crotch portion of the trunks is provided with a raised pattern; Figs. 4 and 5 are fragmentary sections-through the tnmks taken respectively on the lines 4-4 and 5-5 of Fig. 1; Figs. 6, 7 and 8 show different styles of raised patterns that may be applied to the inner surface of the crotch portion of the trunks instead of the pattern shown in Fig. 3; Fig. 9 is a fragment of a pair of trunks showing how substantially all of the inner surface thereof may be provided with a raised pattern; Fig. 10 shows a modified construction of the trunk in which the front margin of the leg portion thereof is shorter than the rear margin; Fig. 10a is a fragmentary view illustrating an alternative leg construction for the trunks.

In Fig. 1, there is disclosed a pair of pants or trunks 5 having a body portion 6 and legs I. These trunks, which are made of liquid latex, have their margins at the waist opening and the u leg openings therein reinforced preferably by inwhich Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a garment tegral ridges of latex, designated to and la. It has been discovered that abbreviated pants or trunks must be provided with more fullness of the material at the back than at thefront thereof, since the buttocks of the wearer greater area require more material for coverage. In order to afford this necessary fullness on such abbreviated trunks, the rear margin b of the trunk at the waist opening is extended beyond or offset with respect to the front margin a at said 10 waist opening. Also the free edges of the legs are inclined upwardly and outwardly from the vertical axis of the trunks to afford the necessary coverage in an abbreviated garment. It is particularly desirable, especially in trunks for men, 16 to provide more room afforded by the outwardly bulged region 9 adjacent the crotch portion of the trunks.

Since the latex of the trunks is relatively thin it clings intimately to the body of the wearer, so go that the contour of certain portions of the body would normally be disclosed therethrough to the embarrassment of the wearer. It has been discovered that if one surface of the trunlm, is provided with an uneven surface pattern such ass. series of ridges and depressions, the contour of the portion of the body covered thereby will not be revealed. As shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5 the pattern may comprise a series of vertical ridges l0 separated by depressions I I, provided on the inner front surface of the trunks at the crotch portion thereof. This ridging which also serves to reinforce the trunks may be applied to any part of the trunks as well as to the crotch portion.

As shown in Fig. 6, the ridges and the depressions may be generally concentric with the outline of the crotch portion or they may radiate from the crotch portion as illustrated in Fig. 7.

The raised patternmay also be developed by a series of hemispherical protuberances l2 (Fig. 8) or by aseries of intersecting ridges l3 (Fig. 9). The raised pattern, although preferably localized at the crotch portion of the trunks, may extend over the entire area of the inner surfaces -thereof as shown in Fig. 9. Obviously, by turning the trunks inside out, the pattern will be on the outside and serve the same purpose.

The trunks 5 illustrated in Fig. 1 may be further modified as disclosed in Fig. 10 by having the lower front margin of each leg 'i offset with respect to the lower rear margin thereof. In the present disclosure the front margin'is shorter than the rear margin, although the reverse of this condition may be established without departu owing to their j 2 areasov 5 arrangement'can replace the leg construction of Fig. 1.

The present disclosure is given merely by way of example and it will be understood that there can be many modifications and variations therein 10 within the scope or the appended claims without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

What I claim is: 1. A seamless, deposited latex body garment, a

16 portion of the inner surface of the garment being provided with an uneven surface pattern to conceal the body contour.

2. A seamless, deposited latex body garment, the entire inner surface of the garment being provided with an uneven surface pattern to conceal the body contour.

3. A pair of seamless, deposited latex trunks having a crotch area, at least one surface of said crotch area being provided with concentric ridges 5 to conceal the body contour.

4. A pair of seamless, deposited latex trunks. having a crotch area, at least one surface of said crotch area being provided with-radiating ridges and depressions extending from the crotch to 10 conceal the body contour.

5. A pair of seamless, deposited latex trunks having a body portion and leg portions joined thereto to define a crotch, said trunks adjacent said crotch being provided with a bulged portion 5 to aflord room for a portion of the body of the wearer, the surface of said bulged portion being provided with a raised pattern.

ABRAHAM N. sPANnL. 

